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• Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Upheaval, Photographer

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell, David Featherstone, Robert Adams (1986). “EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston”

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• Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

  Roger Scruton

  Lying, Secret, Conservatism

  Roger Scruton (2006). “A Political Philosophy”, p.194, A&C Black

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• Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

  David G. Hartwell

  Literary Genre, Fiction, Century

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• Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.

  Diana Souhami

  Paris, Happened

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

  Mason Cooley

  Modern, Paint, Depiction

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• Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Forget

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Looks, Advantage

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.

  Philip Pullman

  Cutting, Ordinary, Doe

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

  Will Self

  Art, Fall, Character

  "Constellation of Genius, 1922: Modernism Year One by Kevin Jackson - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, World, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.30, A&C Black

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• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Arrogance, Want, Kind

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• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Fleeting, Half

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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• The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

  Roger Scruton

  Wall, Culture, Firsts

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

  Roger Scruton

  Past, Hands, Europe

  Roger Scruton (2006). “A political philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

  James Fenton

  Art, Names, Quality

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Funny, Humor, Expression

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• The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where "open form" or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term "heightened speech".

  James Fenton

  Memories, Voice, Aftermath

  "Where poetry and music divide" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

  R. D. Laing

  Men

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.

  Campbell McGrath

  School, Years, People

  "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 01, 2008.

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• In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically different. I use a lot of both in my translation, and modernism does both. For instance, if you look at the way James Joyce presents Ulysses, is that domesticating a classic? Think of it as an experiment in relation to a well-known text in another language.

  Elliott Colla

  Thinking, Style, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Modern, Dangerous, Old Fashioned

  1895 Lord Mark by. An Ideal Husband, act 2.

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• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Marriage, Gone

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• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Time, Europe, History

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• The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

  C. Wright Mills

  Fate, Years, Best Year

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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